Hidviz is a GUI application for in-depth analysis of USB HID class devices. The 2 main usecases of this application are reverse-engineering existing devices and developing new USB HID devices.
USB HID class consists of many possible devices, e.g. mice, keyboards, joysticks and gamepads. But that's not all! There are more exotic HID devices, e.g. weather stations, medical equipment (thermometers, blood pressure monitors) or even simulation devices (think of flight sticks!).
Hidviz can be built on various platforms where following prerequisities can be obtained. Currently only Fedora, Ubuntu and MSYS2/Windows are supported and build guide is available for them.
- C++ compiler with C++14 support
- libusb 1.0 (can be called libusbx in you distro)
- protobuf (v2 is enough)
- Qt5 base
- CMake (>=3.2)
sudo dnf install gcc-c++ gcc qt5-qtbase-devel protobuf-devel libusbx-devel
sudo apt-get install build-essential qtbase5-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libusb-1.0-0-dev
Note that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has old gcc unable to build hidviz, you need to install at least gcc 5.
Please note hidviz is primarily developed on Linux and we currently don't have Windows CI therefore Windows build can be broken at any time. If you find so, please create an issue.
If you do not have MSYS2 installed, firstly follow this guide to install MSYS2.
pacman -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5 mingw-w64-x86_64-libusb \
mingw-w64-x86_64-protobuf mingw-w64-x86_64-protobuf-c mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain \
make
Firstly you need to obtain sources from git and prepare directory for out of source build:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ondrejbudai/hidviz.git
mkdir hidviz/build
cd hidviz/build
Please note you have to do recursive clone.
cmake ..
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
make -j$(nproc)
If you are doing MSYS2 build, check before build you are using MinGW32/64 shell, otherwise the build process won't work. More information can be found here.
To run this project you need build/hidviz as you current directory for hidviz to work properly!
After successful build you need to run
cd hidviz
./hidviz
Unfortunately you cannot use hidviz on Windows straight out of the box. Firstly you need to install custom drivers to devices you want to analyze.
I recommend you using following approach: Download Zadig, run it and install libusbK to device you want to analyze. You can find more information about the need for custom driver on Windows on libusb wiki.
sudo make install
Alternatively, you can install hidviz from Arch Linux's AUR repository:
pacaur -S hidviz
Hidviz is license under GPLv3+. For more information see LICENSE file.